A literary woman…
Henrietta was a literary woman, and the great advantage of being a literary woman was that you could go everywhere and do everything.
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
People vs dogs
“The more I know about people, the better I like my dog.”
– Mark Twain
Never without a book…
“He never went out without a book under his arm, and often came back with two.”
-Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
Never too old…
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
~C S Lewis
Not written in stone…
“Life takes us to unexpected places sometimes. The future is never set in stone, remember that.”
– Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus
Escape to fantasy…
The only people who have a reason for objecting to escape are jailers.
~ Terry Pratchett
A green tree…
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.’
~ Martin Luther
Newspapers…
‘Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.’
George Bernard Shaw
Books as company
“You’re never alone when you’re reading a book.”
– Susan Wiggs
Writing quote by Diana Gabaldon
“The more you do anything, the better you get at it. Guaranteed. Ballerinas aren’t born on their toes.”
~Diana Gabaldon
(Twitter 2014-01-21)
